Agar Town (also known as Ague Town, Hagar Town, Agar-Town and Agar-town) was a short-lived area of St Pancras in central London. It was named after William Agar, a wealthy lawyer who lived at Elm Lodge, a villa in large grounds near to the Regent's Canal roughly where Barker Drive is now. Streets included Canterbury Place, Durham Street, and Oxford Crescent. Agar Town, consisting of low-quality housing for poor people, built of the lowest quality materials on 21 year leases, with no street lighting or sewage, and a population of laborers living in houses they built for themselves, was generally considered a slum. This designation has been questioned.